Enum Constant Detail

• SINGLE_TABLE

  public static final InheritanceType SINGLE_TABLE

  A single table per class hierarchy.

• TABLE_PER_CLASS

  public static final InheritanceType TABLE_PER_CLASS

  A table per concrete entity class.

• JOINED

  public static final InheritanceType JOINED

  A strategy in which fields that are specific to a subclass are mapped to a separate table than the fields that are common to the parent class, and a join is performed to instantiate the subclass.

Method Detail

• values

  public static InheritanceType[] values()

  Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

  for (InheritanceType c : InheritanceType.values())
      System.out.println(c);
  

  Returns:

  an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

• valueOf

  public static InheritanceType valueOf(java.lang.String name)

  Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

  Parameters:

  name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

  Returns:

  the enum constant with the specified name

  Throws:

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

  java.lang.NullPointerException - if the argument is null